1932 in Brazil

Events in the year 1932 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Getúlio Vargas (Head of the Provisional Government)
• Vice President: none

Governors

• Alagoas: Tasso de Oliveira Tinoco; Louis de France Albuquerque
• Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
• Bahia: Juracy Magalhães
• Ceará: Manuel Fernandes Távora
• Goiás:
  • till 3 November: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
  • 3 November - 20 December: Mário de Alencastro Caiado
• from 20 December: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
• Maranhão: Lourival Seroa da Mota
• Mato Grosso: Artur Antunes Maciel; Leônidas Antero de Matos
• Minas Gerais: Olegário Dias Maciel
• Pará: Joaquim de Magalhães Barata
• Paraíba:
  • till 26 April: Antenor de França Navarro
  • from 26 April: Gratuliano da Costa Brito
• Pernambuco: Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti
• Piauí: Landry Sales
• Paraná:
  • João Perneta
  • Manuel Ribas
• Rio Grande do Norte: Hercolino Cascardo (until June 11, 1932); Bertino Dutra da Silva (from June 11, 1932)
• Rio Grande do Sul: José Antônio Flores da Cunha
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo: Manuel Rabelo (until March 7, 1932); Pedro Manuel de Toledo (from July 10, 1932)
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

The original flag of Brazilian Integralism

• 24 February
  • The Justiça Eleitoral do Brasil is created by Decreto nº 21.076.^[1]
  • Women win the right to vote.^[2]
• April – Peter Fleming joins the expedition to find missing Englishman Colonel Percy Fawcett; the following year he publishes an account of the expedition, entitled Brazilian Adventure.
• 23 May – Four protesting students (Martins, Miragaia, Dráusio and Camargo) are killed by government troops, sparking off the "Paulista War".
• June – Paulista rebels take control of the state of São Paulo.^[3]
• 9 July – Constitutionalist Revolution: The population of the state of São Paulo revolt against the 1930 coup d'état.
• July–August – 82 athletes from Brazil travel on board the Itaquicê to Los Angeles for the Summer Olympic Games, selling coffee along the way to fund the trip. The team wins no medals.
• 2 October – The São Paulo rebels are defeated by government forces.
• October – Brazilian Integralism, a Fascist movement, is founded by Plínio Salgado.^[4]

Arts and culture

Books

• Afonso Schmidt – Garoa

Films

• Ao Redor do Brasil
• Anchieta Entre o Amor e a Religião
• O Pecado da Vaidade

Births

• 26 January – Kilza Setti, ethnomusicologist, composer, and pianist
• 19 February – Alberto Dines, journalist and writer (died 2018)^[5]
• 26 April – Agildo Ribeiro, actor and humorist (died 2018)^[6]
• 28 April – Stênio Garcia, actor
• 6 May – José Maria Marin, politician and sports administrator
• 12 May – Walter Wanderley, organist and pianist, best known for his lounge and bossa nova music.^[7] (died 1986)
• 25 May – Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, film director and screenwriter (died 1988)
• 21 June – Ilka Soares, actress
• 23 July – Oswaldo Loureiro, Brazilian actor (died 2018)^[8]
• 28 July – Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, military officer and politician (died 2015)
• 28 August – Raul Cortez, actor (died 2006)
• 15 September – Antônio Abujamra, theatre and television director and actor (died 2015)
• 14 November – Cláudio Ulpiano, philosopher (died 1999)^[9]

Deaths

date unknown – Evaristo Conrado Engelberg, mechanical engineer and inventor (born 1853)^[10]

July

• 2 July - Rodolfo Teófilo, writer, poet and film-maker (born 1863)^[11]
• 23 July – Alberto Santos-Dumont, Franco-Brazilian aviation pioneer (born 1873; apparent suicide by hanging^[12])